Pope Francis is putting a stop to the sale of cigarettes and tobacco inside Vatican City State. A statement released on Thursday by the Director of the Holy See Press Office, explained that the Holy See “cannot be cooperating with a practice that is clearly harming the health of people.”

Delegates arrive at a High Level Signing Ceremony for the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The Holy See signed and ratified the Treaty on Wednesday.

Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, President of the Governorate of Vatican City State, as his Special Envoy for the bicentennial celebrations of the founding of the Diocese of Cuneo in Italy to be on 16 July

Food from the parts of Italy affected by recent earthquakes are now on sale at the Vatican supermarket.

The Vatican supermarket is supporting those affected by the earthquakes in central Italy by offering goods for sale made by local farmers in the region, especially the town of Amatrice, which was hit hardest by the quake on 24 August 2016.

Monsignor Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, and Josef Aschbacher, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA, and an unidentified third person at the Vatican Library on Friday.

Vatican Weekend for November 5, 2016 features a special tribute to the Rome basilicas most closely associated with the Pope: St. John Lateran and St. Peter's whose anniversaries of dedication are remembered in November. Plus, we find out where Rome's Holy Stairs may have come from.